This book analyzes and describes the instruments used by the Turkish state to manage Kurdish nationalism during 2007 to 2009 and the response of Kurds and the PKK and DTP to this state management which included the armed forces, conspiratorial organizations...

This book describes the competition and struggle between nationalism (the goat), ethnonationalism, capitalism (the butcher), and the processes of state formation using Iraqi Kurdistan as a case study. In order to add coherence and lucidity to theoretical...

Collection of essays based on an international conference on the Iranian revolution held at Centre College of Kentucky in June 1979.

The Kurds are the fourth largely ethnic group in the Middle East, numbering between 32-35 million. The vast majority of them live in contiguous regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, yet they do not have a country of their own. Formal attempts to establish...

This is the first book in Mazda Publishers' new Kurdish Studies Series. It focuses on the “Kurdish Question,” i.e., the trans-state aspects of the challenge of Kurdish nationalism on Turkish-Iranian relations since WWI. It emphasizes the period of the...

This extended essay analyzes what Professor Olson considers have been the three most important developments in the Kurdish nationalist movements (KNMs) in Turkey during the three decade span from 1980 to 2011. The author analyzes three major themes that...

Robert Olson’s "The Siege of Mosul and Ottoman-Persian Relations, 1718-1743: A Study of Rebellion in the Capital and War in the Provinces of the Ottoman Empire" tells the epic story of how the failed economic and diplomatic polices of the Ottoman Empire from...

Robert Olson has written the first book detailing the tumultuous history and politics of Iran and Turkey during the past quarter of a century. This study discusses the impact of Iran’s Islamic revolution, its militant ideology, the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988)...

This volume, the second in the Kurdish Studies Series by this publisher, focuses on the role of the Kurdish and Islamist questions in Turkey’s foreign policies with Iran, Syria, Israel and Russia from the end of the Persian Gulf War to 2000.The author...